Glad Valentine’s Day, Sunriser readers! Throughout the previous couple weeks we requested in your Colorado valentines and also you confirmed up. Learn a number of the responses right here.
In keeping with our readers, to like Colorado is to like huge Jap Plains skies and tiny alpine wonders (hiya, pika!); it’s to like billowing thunderheads, numerous sunshine and heat downslope winds. One among you wrote concerning the view from the home windows at DIA, one other wrote about seeing canines in House Depot.
And plenty of — many — of you wrote concerning the individuals who make this state so fantastic. We couldn’t agree extra. So thanks for exhibiting one another some Colorado love. That’s what this present day’s about!
Now, about that state we’re all gushing over …
STATE LEGISLATURE
After hours of negotiations, lawmakers added a carveout to the bold gun regulation invoice that gave it a stronger probability of surviving the governor’s veto pen. Jesse Paul digs into the controversy that stretched lengthy into the evening to elucidate what precisely modified — and why it could nonetheless be one of many greatest adjustments to gun legal guidelines the state has ever seen.
COLORADANS
Cease me should you’ve heard this one. So a German instructor, a mechanic, a pastor, a carpenter and a mailman stroll right into a bar Grand Junction bagel store … However severely, this story from Nancy Lofholm concerning the Bookcliff Barbershop Refrain is certain to place a smile in your face and a music in your coronary heart. Bonus enjoyable truth: One of many group’s gigs this 12 months is at a reservation-only, white-tablecloth Valentine’s Day dinner at a McDonald’s in Clifton.
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
The utmost lodging tax that might be authorized by voters below Home Invoice 1247, up from the present 2% cap
Lawmakers wish to assist communities pay for housing and different much-needed infrastructure tasks by letting cities enhance the taxes on folks flocking to take pleasure in this lovely state. Jason Blevins digs into the invoice — and the way mountain cities helped show the idea.
OUTDOORS
The typical elevate for elevate mechanics at Crested Butte Mountain
With the specter of one other strike hanging within the crisp, snowy air, Vail Resorts and the elevate mechanic union at Crested Butte Mountain struck a deal that provides staff an across-the-board pay elevate, in addition to annual stipends to pay for issues like skis and security gear used at work. Jason Blevins has extra.
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CARTOONS
In “What’d I Miss?” Ossie’s fanciful “dream” conjures a robust allegory for coping with the challenges headed our approach like so many asteroids.
Jim Morrissey seems on the latest immigration raids by way of the Valentine’s Day lens of a non-citizen named Cupid who has some explaining to do.
Drew Litton isn’t fazed in any respect by the Nuggets stand-pat posture because the NBA commerce deadline handed. They’re on an 8-game heater.
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It’s all the time laborious to share a birthday with a vacation. In the event you get the possibility, want YouTube a cheerful twentieth birthday in the present day, too! The positioning launched Feb. 14, 2005, as a web based relationship service and occurred to have an distinctive video add function. The relationship service failed. The video uploads, effectively, have come a great distance.
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